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Slack - Atlanta, GA
posted 2 days ago
About the position
Salesforce is looking for an Android Engineer to join the Slack team, where you will work on crafting phenomenal Android applications. You will collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to enhance the Slack experience on Android, which is used by millions of people weekly. The role requires a strong understanding of Android framework components, mobile engineering experience, and a passion for creating delightful user experiences. You will be responsible for building efficient, performant applications while maintaining a disciplined approach to development, testing, and documentation.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Slack Android app to enhance user experience.
- Collaborate with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a delightful mobile experience.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize Java code and view layouts.
- Utilize knowledge of Android API levels to ensure compatibility and performance across devices.
- Implement best practices for concurrency and threading in mobile applications.
Requirements
- At least 7+ years of mobile engineering experience, ideally in a team environment.
- A related technical degree required.
- Experience developing with Kotlin.
- Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles.
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and programming languages.
- Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers.
- Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels.
- Experience developing highly performant Java code and view layouts.
- A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure.
- Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking.
- Excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading.
- A constant desire to improve, learn more, and take things higher.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better.
- Experience building design systems to create reusable and scalable components.
- A passion for creating accessible applications.
- A passion for building and maintaining outstanding open source projects or otherwise adding to the Android community.
- Experience with reactive programming (e.g. RXJava).
Benefits
- Wellbeing reimbursement
- Generous parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility benefits
